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Introduction | Biographical Sketch | Scope and Content | Series Description | Inventory

Introduction

The Haner Family Papers consists of minor correspondence, land records, and two photographs related a family living in Wyandot County, Ohio.

The collection was donated to the Center for Archival Collections through the cooperation of Clara Dean Cartwright on August 31, 1998. Duplication is permitted for the purposes of preservation and research. The collection was processed and register prepared by Marilyn Levinson, Curator of Manuscripts in November 2004.

Biographical Sketch

Henry H. Haner, with his wife Sarah Strope Haner, was an early settler in the Wyandot County, Ohio area, coming to the County in 1838 and holding property in Mifflin and Marseilles Townships. Henry emigrated to Kansas in 1863, but his son John continued to live in Mifflin Township of the County.

Scope and Content

The bulk of the Haner Family papers center on the family of Henry H. Haner, his son John Haner, with some minor material on the related Dean family (associated with the Haners through the second marriage of John Haner). Although most of the papers relate to land transactions dating from the earliest acquisition of land by the family in Wyandot County in 1838, the letters written from the area around Peoria, Franklin County, Kansas by Henry Haner, each about a year apart from 1865 through 1867, provide the most personal view of the life of the family. The various letters describes the trip, family health and deaths, farming (including an account in the letter of January 15, 1867 of a plague of grasshoppers) and the economic conditions of the area.

Series Description

CORRESPONDENCE

CORRESPONDENCE - HENRY HANER
1865-1867
Letters written by Henry Haner, who had emigrated to Kansas in 1863, to his children still living in Ohio. Transcripts included

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

LAND PATENTS
1836, 1837
Arranged chronologically
Land Office certificates in the name of Bazil Young out of the General Land Office in Bucyrus for land in Wyandot County that was eventually bought by Henry H. Haner

DEEDS/MORTGAGES
1836-1884, 1919-1928
Various indentures, warranty deeds, and mortgages on property owned by members of the Haner family. Also includes a file of deeds to land in Toledo, Ohio belonging to the Dean family

LAND ABSTRACTS
1884
Abstract of title to lands belonging to John Haner in Wyandot County, Ohio

PRINTED MATERIAL

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
1884
Biography of John Haner, including some information on Henry H. Haner, copied from History of Wyandot County, Ohio (1884)

PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS
Circa 1930, 1950
John Haner and Hazel Haner Kellerson

Inventory

Box 1

Folders

1. Henry Haner Correspondence (3), 1865-1867
2. Land Grant Papers - Bazil Young, 1836, 1837
3. Land Indenture Papers - B. Young to Wm. Stricker & Wm. Stricker to Henry Haner, 1836-1838
4. Haner Family Deeds/Mortgages, 1864-1884
5. Johnson and Dean Family Deeds/Mortgages, Toledo, 1919-1928
6. Land Abstract, John Haner, Wyandot County, 1884
7. John Haner Biographical Sketch from Wyandot County History, 1884
8. Photographs: John Haner and Hazel Haner Kellerson, c. 1930, 1950

Manuscripts by Subject | Family Collections